August 2013 - Posts

T-SQL deployment scripts are tedious to write and they get no love. As a result, they are very often the most horrible, error-prone step-children of scripts*. One basic principle that could help is to develop a habit of using the “IF NOT EXISTS” or “CREATE Read More...

Edit 9 October 2013: A new version is out! Please download 1.2 from here . Back in the Spring I released a 1.0 version of a utility that will show the structure of SQL Server files graphically. Today I have a new release that includes some fixes and updates Read More...